10.29.2008

already scraped away from the shutters

why do they rattle affirming or improve?
the underworld efferent by the subway
no, the real world.

my baby is in quotations.
it's just that it's so late 
and stupid and scary
that i couldn't say anything
so i'll close the brief case (i think)
and there's some road zipping by
the lights are still showing
the underworld

10.28.2008

practicing sentence structure resurfaces the subjective
i discovered my philosophy black bear in the canopy

steep graded we're played out

i look at my journal and feel anger garbage
for the feeling of throwing something out
my poem, with the bear mauling us, fails.

i wrote it once, in my journal and didn't work on it.

feeling tired so i don't have to think is good.

making myself tired by thinking is good.

i keep getting interrupted because i'm at work.

if i weren't at work i'd do something to stop the interruptions.

i'm going to spend time getting interruptions out of the way.

10.25.2008

once, driving to college, i rolled my car in a bank of snow.
it was a harmless accident.
it was soft, no broken glass, nothing dented, twisted or banged.
when they rolled the car back on to it's wheels,
i saw all the things i had packed my car with
to bring to my dorm toss around in the car.
three years later i read ted berrigan describe his spirit
in a poem.
i think 'my spirit is like the things in my car that day.'
the cursor moves like a silver bird
i stand in my 24th year
the fall happens now
water comes down my face
as i inhale
i submerge and exhale
something disctracts me
i read autumn by garcia richards
on poets.org

10.23.2008

im bigger than most clocks
not fitting in time it's funny
how everyone is stupid
i thought
short fiction, novels, easier
than poetry
24 ft horse
unladen wires
explode me

hoodie

hands were a subject at work today.
i wanted to put my hands in your skin.
spinelessly
i feel large flat wide headed
large hands shouldering
coffins. no-think.
i know you think.
move your brain out the peep-hole
walk the hall a ghost
and pound on the elevator
pound with no-hand.
the man inside deserves
raw lettuce.